348 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
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Social surveillance and regulation of knowledge will be one of the most important issues in the near future, one that will give rise to unending controversy. In The Governance of Knowledge, Nico Stehr predicts that such concerns will create a new political field, namely, knowledge policy, which will entail regulating dissemination of the anticipated results of rapidly increasing knowledge. The... Read more
Part I. The Emergence of Knowledge Politics: Origins, Context and Consequences 1. Knowledge Policy as the Task of Science: On Ethically Relevant Knowledge of Nature 2. Traditional Knowledge in Modern Society 3. In Search of Vehicles for Knowledge Governance: On the Need for Institutions that Creatively Destroy Social Capital
Part II. Major Social Institutions and Knowledge Politics 4. The Rising Relevance of Non-Explicit Knowledge under a New Regime of Knowledge Production 5. Policing Society: Genetics, Robotics, Nanotechnology 6. The New Human Zoo
Part III. Case Studies on the Governance of Knowledge: The Ineffective Governance of Science
7. Feedback Loops in the Politics of Knowledge Production 8. BSE and the Phillips Report: A Cautionary Tale about the Uptake of ‘Risk’ 9. Subjects of Knowledge: Epistemologies of the Consumer in the GM Food Debate
Part IV. Issues in Knowledge Politics as a New Political Field 10. The Use of Knowledge in the Legal System: The Relationship between Scientific Expertise and Legal Decisions 11. The Innovation Commons 12. Quasi-Science and the State: ‘Governing Science’ in Comparative Perspective
Concluding Observations: Free Flow of Information or Embedded Expertise? Notes on the Regulation of Knowledge
Reiner Grundmann
Part II. Major Social Institutions and Knowledge Politics 4. The Rising Relevance of Non-Explicit Knowledge under a New Regime of Knowledge Production 5. Policing Society: Genetics, Robotics, Nanotechnology 6. The New Human Zoo
Part III. Case Studies on the Governance of Knowledge: The Ineffective Governance of Science
7. Feedback Loops in the Politics of Knowledge Production 8. BSE and the Phillips Report: A Cautionary Tale about the Uptake of ‘Risk’ 9. Subjects of Knowledge: Epistemologies of the Consumer in the GM Food Debate
Part IV. Issues in Knowledge Politics as a New Political Field 10. The Use of Knowledge in the Legal System: The Relationship between Scientific Expertise and Legal Decisions 11. The Innovation Commons 12. Quasi-Science and the State: ‘Governing Science’ in Comparative Perspective
Concluding Observations: Free Flow of Information or Embedded Expertise? Notes on the Regulation of Knowledge
Reiner Grundmann
Biography
Nico Stehr
